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$22B gives you enough bang for acquihiring a team and also their moral values. The vilified philosopher Groucho Marx once said: "Those are my principles, and

• ChuckMcM 10y ago
  Interesting question is if you sell out your app for a ton of cash, there isn't any structural issue preventing remaking it in the pre-sold out version (well maybe the original authors sign a doc that says they won't but others don't). So in theory you all can move another service with morals intact. But that is "hard" because your friends don't feel like moving. So the moralist says to their friends, "fine but I won't chat on whatsapp" and then they find their friends like them but not enough to change the app they use. So the moralist now has no friends (or they are always grumpy because their friends chose convienience over privacy) and they have to vent that frustration on the people who sold out. It is a really interconnected set of issues, where the simplest person to blame is often not the actual problem.